No longer taboo talking material, these celebs are helping to shine a spotlight on one of the most common problems women—and their families—face.

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Kate Walsh

Kate Walsh

The Private Practice actress, 48, has admitted before that she wants children, but recently she revealed that she went through early menopause. "I don't have children. I'm not going to have kids. I went through early menopause.… My older sister called and was like, 'By the way, you should go and get yourself checked because I'm going through menopause early,'" she told Maria Menounos on her SiriusXM radio show. "And I'm like, 'You're just scaring me.' And then, yeah, sure enough, I went and they were like, 'You have one egg.'… It was bleak."

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Kim Kardashian West

Kim Kardashian West

Although Kim is reaching her due date soon, the road to baby number two was a bumpy one. The reality TV star admitted her difficulty conceiving on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, saying, "There are definitely times when I walked out [of the doctor's office] hysterically crying. And other times when I was like, 'Okay, everything's looking good, it's going to be this month!' The waiting and waiting has been a roller coaster."

Kate Walsh

The Private Practice actress, 48, has admitted before that she wants children, but recently she revealed that she went through early menopause. "I don't have children. I'm not going to have kids. I went through early menopause.… My older sister called and was like, 'By the way, you should go and get yourself checked because I'm going through menopause early,'" she told Maria Menounos on her SiriusXM radio show. "And I'm like, 'You're just scaring me.' And then, yeah, sure enough, I went and they were like, 'You have one egg.'… It was bleak."

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Kim Kardashian West

Although Kim is reaching her due date soon, the road to baby number two was a bumpy one. The reality TV star admitted her difficulty conceiving on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, saying, "There are definitely times when I walked out [of the doctor's office] hysterically crying. And other times when I was like, 'Okay, everything's looking good, it's going to be this month!' The waiting and waiting has been a roller coaster."

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Giuliana Rancic

Giuliana and her husband Bill's journey to pregnancy—which they shared on their reality show—included IVF, miscarriage, and a breast cancer diagnosis. Because the TV personality's cancer medication prevented her from carrying her own embryos, the couple sought out a surrogate to give birth to their son, Duke, in 2012.

Hoping for a second child, the couple revealed this spring that their surrogate, who was carrying their last embryo, had miscarried. "It was painful," Giuliana told People. "We were so optimistic with this last embryo. We thought, This is definitely going to work. This is our last shot."

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Chrissy Teigen

The model, 29, spoke out in September about the struggle she and husband John Legend had conceiving. So when Chrissy announced her pregnancy on Instagram in October, she was ecstatic. "As many of you know, we've been trying to have a baby for a while now," she said. "It hasn't been easy, but we kept trying because we can't wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family. We're so excited that it's finally happening."

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Mariah Carey

Before she became pregnant with twins Moroccan and Monroe, Mariah suffered a miscarriage, and when Barbara Walters asked her and ex-husband Nick Cannon on 20/20 if they had fertility treatments, Mariah confirmed. "The main thing I did that was tough was to go on progesterone, like, every month… and then when I was pregnant, I had to stay with the progesterone for 10 weeks," she said. "It minimizes the chance of miscarriage by 50 percent."

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Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy and wife Nancy Juvonen have two daughters, Winnie and Frances, born via a surrogate. "I know people have tried much longer [than we have], but if there's anyone out there who is trying and they're just losing hope… just hang in there," he told the Todayshow. "Try every avenue; try anything you can do, 'cause you'll get there. You'll end up with a family, and it's so worth it. It is the most 'worth it' thing."

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Tyra Banks

Tyra, 41, spoke out alongside Chrissy Teigen, admitting that she too has had fertility problems. "When I turned 40, the one thing I was not happy about is that I did not have kids." Of the IVF procedures she's undergone, she said, "I've had some not-happy moments with that, very traumatic moments. It's difficult as you get older. It's not something that can just happen."

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Sarah Jessica Parker

In 2009, SJP and husband Matthew Broderick revealed that they were expecting twins via a surrogate. The Sex and the City actress, 50, opened up to Access Hollywood when asked if she faced "disappointment" in getting pregnant, saying, "Yeah, I mean, I couldn't pretend otherwise.… It would be odd to have made this choice if I was able to, you know, have successful pregnancies since my son's birth."

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Jaime King

Not long after welcoming her first son, James Knight, Jaime shared with her Instagram followers the difficulties getting to that moment. "This is the truth about conceiving my son and struggles after 8 yrs of pain and undiagnosed PCOS & Endometriosis. 9 doctors until Dr. Randy Harris diagnosed me & saved my life from a severe ectopic, 5 miscarriages, 5 rounds of IVF, 26 IUI's, most with no outcome, 4 1/2 years of trying to conceive, 26 hours of brutal labor, early delivery b/c of sudden preeclampsia..." she wrote.

"I was hiding what I was going through for so long, and I hear about so many women going through what I went through," she told People. "If I'm open about it, hopefully it won't be so taboo to talk about it."

While pregnant with her second son, Leo Thames, she opened up to Fit Pregnancy, saying, "When someone tells you, 'Oh, you might not be able to [carry a child],' you feel like it's the one thing that you have that's this gift, that makes you a woman, and there's something wrong with you."

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Brooke Shields

The two years before Brooke, 50, and husband Chris Henchy had their first child included rounds of artificial insemination, IVF, hormone shots, and miscarriage. "Everyone around me was getting pregnant," Brooke wrote in her memoir Down Came the Rain. "I was starting to feel bitter. Maybe I really wasn't meant to have kids."

"After a while, when you're not successful, you start to associate the word failure every time you pee on a stick and it doesn't come out the right color," she has also said. "What starts out as a dream becomes a project that's all-consuming—everywhere you look, women are pregnant, and every song on the radio seems like it's all about being pregnant! It becomes a very frustrating, frightening place."